The Sun. — London, England, 1818-03-26 00:00:00

FRENC LI PAVERS. PARIS, MAUCH 22.—The following are further details relati v e to the fire at l'Odeon : The Duke de Berry transmitted 2,000 francs to the thand. Referendary of the Chamber of Peers to he distributed amongst the firemen, soldiers, and whers, who had nur,t exerted themselves: '1 he Legion du Nord were employed at the tire till ,ten o'clock at- night, and manifested the gr;:atest zeal. Several soldiers were slightly wounded. Several of the military preventtd the stealing of valuable articles, and others exposed them- selves to clanger to save individuals. Two women were saved with great difficulty by the courageous exertions of a young A grenadier of the 2d regiment of Royal Guards was killed by the fall of part of a wall. M. Valville, the Prompter of the Theatre, escaped with great difficulty .through a window, 'by the prompt aid of persons - without. The Actors of l'Odeon will, it is expected, ob tain permission to play at the Saloon de Louvois and at the Theatre Favart, concurrently with Ma dame Catalani, whose lease expires the Ist of May. The loss of scenery, dresses, a nd other property at l'Odeon, is estimated at 600,000 francs. The accounts of the origin of the fire are at pre- sent involved in great contradiction. The Duke de Richelieu, the Spanish . Ambassa, do - r, and the Swiss Envoy, had yesterday a con ference with the Duke of Wellington. An embargo is .said to have been laid in. the POrts of ,Spain on all' the vessels of the United - States of America. On the B[ll instant the 'lightning struck the Church of Carantau (Manche) during high mass ; it entered the church, and some of those present were slightly hurt, but none seriously. A Physician has been exiled from Prague, and from all the Austrian States, on a charge of as sisting at Masonic Lodges, which are prohibited in that Empire with the greatest severity. Five PER CENTS.—Saturday, Ex. Div..6sf. 95c. i\IAD&.ID, MARCH 10.—The expedition from Cadiz will, it is generally thought,' proceed to the Rio de la Plata. Mr. Meade, the American Consul, is still de tained iu custody. NUREMBERG,MARCEI 14.—Important dispatches frotu the Emperor of Russia have arrived at Vienna. It is believed they relate to the journey of his Imperial Majesty into Germany, 'and indi cate the pi.ecise period of his arrival in Austria. :rile Icing of Prussia will not return from his journey to Russia till the middle of July, and eon seynently the Congress of Sovereigns will not take. place before the end of that month. as Hi:A - FR.lc .tL REGISTER. Pty-lornted Last Night. TnEATRE Roy.tr., Dituky-LANE.-- , (first tittle), Rob Roy, the Greg:wall : Principal Characters by Mr. Rae and Miss After which, Fortune's Frolic. TR EATItE ROYAL, COVENT-GA HEIEN.--(filtil time), Rob Roy Macgregor: Francis (LI - i4laistt/ne, Mr. Sinetir ; Diana -Vernon, Miss Stephens. Alter which, klarlequii Gulliver. 111.111,5. ARRIVED-1 Dublin, 2 WAterftird, 1 Leeward Islands. Du!-1 Ho!laud, 1 Ciuttenburgli, 1 Lisbon, 1 France, 3 Ilainburgh. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY At TWELVE per Cent. Cons... .78• 77e I Exch. Bills, Rd,...145. 16s. pr. 5 per Ct. N. Ann.. 106 e 105 e Ditto, , 21d...175. 15s. 16s. pr. India pr. Cons. for Accottnt ....7811 78 E. EA-ros, Stock-limner, • 21 Cornbill, and Lombard-street. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO•MOItRO\. Morning, 15 minutes after 5. I Evening, 40 minutes after THE S UN. SOLEM QUIS DICEItE FALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1818. We received last night the Paris Papers of Sun day last. None were published on Monday, on account of the solemnity of Easter Sunday. They do not yet announce the apprehension of the as sassin who attempted the life of the Duke of WELLINGTON', but we have no doubt of the fact being as stated by our respectable Correspondent, who has access to the best sources of infor- mstion: We give extracts from these Papers above,chiefly consisting of further particulars relative to the recent fire at L'Odeon, respecting which it is but justice to say that a zeal and humanity appear to have been displayed highly creditable to all classes of the Parisians. One of the Reports on the Budget, that of M. Roa on the expenditure, was made to'; he Cham ber of_Deptities on Saturday. The reading of the second A Report by Count BEtIGNoT, On the Ways anll; . ;Veansp Was deferred till Monday. The chief feature , in the first Report is the recommendation of Vre'Committce to reduce the expences in the departments of Police, of the Intetior, of War, and the Marine, and some other items ; so as to effect in all a saving of 22,250,000 francs. There is little else in these Journals worthy of notice. The Duke de IttcrißLiEu, the Spanish Ambassador, and the SwiSs Envoy, had a confer- cure on Saturday with the Duke of WELLING,' TON. A report is Mentioned in one pf the Papers that an Embargo had been laid in the- ports of Spain on the vessels of the United States of America. The Spanish Expedition from Cadiz is, it is rumoured, to proceed to the Rio de la Plata. The Congress of the Sovereigns will, it is now said, be held at the end of July next. FRENCH viva PHI( CENTS. Saturday, vx. tra. 65 f. 95 c. -.rJ This morning we 'received New York Papers to the 26th of Febittar'y. LETTERS FROM THE ARMY. Mit.r.roosviLLE, FEB. 10.-" We haVe no further information of any mischief baVing been done by the Indians. It is the opinion of many intelligent persons that the savages, front the nature of their country, can elude a decisive engftgement, and procrastinate the IVar almost at pleasure. We think it unfortunate that the Militia had not been called out, in the first instance, for the full term authorised by Law. Just as the above was in type, we learn, that ihe Governor has received a letter from General JACKSON, dated from Jackson County, in this State. The General was proceeding to Fort Uawkiu3 ; and there is but little doubt that he arrived there yesterday, as the firing of the cannon, in that direction, was distinctly heard. NEW ORLEANS, JAN. 24.—New (Means at this season of the year exhibits all the bustle of a great fair. Here are crowded together multi tudes of sellers and buyers, from Alabama to Na {;itches, and North to Canada, Ohio, and the extreme of Missouri ; all seem eager to grasp their object, and may obtain it, for it is a country richer in its productions than if it possessed the Mines of Mexico. Cotton is abundant, and arrives at this place as though itgrem in floating down: the River. I have • seen the steam-boat arrive with 800 bales of cotton on decii, and this re peated again and again. It is judged that there will be more produce brought to this city during the present than in any former season.. The wea ther has been colder here this season than has everbeen known for many ye • ars. The. thermo meter has been as low as 27 degrees.; 1 have seen ice two inches thick, and the ground has been coveted with :now for several days. • By the Leeward Island Mail, arrived this morn ing, lac have received Letters from St.Thomas's, and horn Trinadad, to the 14th. The latter give information from the Oronoko, which states, that the Patriotic Army under General BOLIVAR had been defeated by the Forces under Gen. Mo RILL 0, before Calabazo, in conseqnence of ‘Thich the Independent Forces were concentrating themselves at Augustuta. It is surprizing that the Conductor- of The Worni►tg Chronicle, whoever he may be, should have so little taste as always to be harping on the same string. Mr. CANNING is the daily object of its abutse, and while ii affects to condemn what it stiles coarse language and allusions on the part of that Gentleman, it falls into more coarse vulgarity titan it imputes to him. It is proper to set the matter right, which we do without any peculiar partiality to Mr. CANNING, though .admiring his abilities, his knowledge, a n d his wit, and fully relying on the rectitude of his political principles. Mr. CANNING did nor, as The Chronicle falsely and malevolently asserts, throw ridicule upon OGDEN and his disorder. OGDEN was not an ob ject for ridicule, hilt for severe reprobation ; yet if ridicule can expose such -men to universal contempt, ,it is properly. employed again s t them. Nor did Mr. CANNING treat with ridi cule the bodily Mt mity of this man, he only ridiculed the despicable attempts of the Opposition Writers to make his disorder, in one sense, a covering and excuse for his disorder in an other. When Mr. CANNING talked of - f•the do (pence of a rupture," he must have had too much taste, too much judgment, and too much regard to the common feelings of mankind to- intend to treat bodily pain and a severe operation with levity ; but his, humour was directed against the, malignant whinings of the Scribblers without, and the Partizans within doors, who, if OLIVER had suffered in the same manner, would have exerted all the wit which they could muster against him, bat who wailed piteously over OG DEN, because he is a patriot of their own stamp. These miserably dull Scribblers and Orators, hav ing no sense of humour, 'either take things liter ally, or chose to do so in order to vent their rancour. The Chronicle this day mentions the manner in . which " poor OGD►EN's towels were extracted, and how they writhed round the knife," and such is the mode in which it entertains its readets. It is . impossible that-the Proprietor of The• Chronicle, : who mixes with good society, and is too well' acquainted_ with the public taste and feeling, can beforehand that his Paper will be disgraced 'wjth'-it:tch contemptible and -disgusting trash, — We kiwi , / little of.the operations, and secret bis lory of Our Competitors, but we are told that this continned hostility against . gr. CiNNI NG doannot prOceed from political opposition, bntivtlze effect ' of private revenge, that Gentleman having, in a de bate, once designated a suspected writer in The Chro nicle by such an opprobrious appellation as could not bemistak en, and, Mac ill lacry ma , all the per; severing rancour that assails him on every occasion - . We know not whether there be any truth in this so lution ; but, if there be, it will fully account for his being the object of daily defamation, -and the matter is not unfit for enquiry, as the truth once known, may put a stop to such low-minded ve nom as can only disgrace any cause which it pro fesses to support. tOAL DUTIES.—It gives us pleasure to observe that the unfairness of the Coastwise Duty on Coal excites increasing attention. Numerous Petitions against it have already been presented to Parliament. In tact, only one argument can be alleged in its favour, namely, that the amount cannot be spared by Government ; but we will not pay so ill a compliment to the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER as to believe that he cannot provide a fair substitute for a tax acknowledged to be partial, unjust, and impolitic. The few in dividuals interested in its continuance have been endeavouring to alarm the Northern Coal Pro prietors, by propagating rumours of an Excise Duty at the pit's mouth as a substitute, but the authors of such rumours and their motives are well known, and though they succeeded once in imposing upon Parliament, they will not easily make a cat's-paw of the-Northern Interest, which feels more than any other the pressure of the coastwise duty, and is most interested in its re peal.. We can confidently state, whatever the Agents of the persons we have alluded to may re present, that this bugbear of an Excise Duty is their own invention for interested purposes, and that the attempt now made is to obtain the-total repeal of the Coastwise Tax without any other duty on Coal, and that if any substitute be re quired it . will be proposed upon an article where the hurdlers will be generally borne, and to which there can be no reasonable objection.—We are informed that, notwithstanding tine present depressed state of this branch' of the Coasting Trade, the sailors in the Northern Out-ports are standing out at this time for an increase of wages, and that the owners of the vessels engaged in it must be ruined, unless some timely relief is afford ed to them by the Legislature. Accounts from Bombay state, that the force of 4000 men, to which the.. PEISH WA oppose 4 an army of 40,000, was part of the army under the command of Colonel SatITII, of the 7th Native Infantry. Colonel SMITH had previously march ed further into the interior towards Candeish, leaving this force as a corps olithservation upon the PFAsitwx's movements in Poonah.—The Of ficers wounded are, Lieutenant FALCONER, ist batt. 24 Bombay Native Infantry ;Captain Nes- TON, Bombay European Regiment, both .severely. Hopes are entertained that the report of the two Officers taken prisoners having been shot by or der of the Petsuwa will prove unfounded. Wirsznsoa, ;MARCH 25.—Yesterday the Prince of HESSE HOM EG suite arrived at the Castle. In the evening her MAJESTY had a se lect party. This morning the Prince of Hesse IlomauttG rode out on horseback Windsor Great Park.. . Yesterday the PELNCi REGENT and the Duke of GLOUCESTER left town for Windsor, Royal Highnesses; together with the Duchess pi GLOUCESTER, and K r UNT, were ex pected in town last night.. The Duke of CAMIIIt I DGE and his Consort are not expected in England before the beginning . of May. We are sorry to learn by the last letters from Canada, that his Excellency Sir Jolt N StIBRUROK E is seriously indisposed and confined to his bed room. The great Ejectment Causes; between the Duke of DEVONSHIRE and the Corporation of Yougball, are postponed, anti me not to be tried at the,pre sent Cork Assizes. On Saturday last, the cattle fair at Istarbeth iex hibited a laige show of all kinds * Of beasts, the whole of Which met with a quick demand, and went off at high prices. On Tuesday last, the books, assessments, and other papers relative to. the late Property Tax, .from the commencement to the conclusion, were collected together at Messrs. WILTON'S Office, in Gloucester, tctehse Houseter, and ofb► Commonsiirnt,conf . ormably to an order i Wurr Doc..;--A most destructive animal (sup posed of the mastiff species) has for a consider. able time past infested the neighbourhood of Roe hampton, and committed great ravages among the sheep and lambs of persons residing in and near that place :—twenty belonging to Lord Ellenho rough, eleven of Sir Charles Price's, ten belong ing to Mr. Leader, and one of Mr. Jones's (the Marshal of the King's Bench), have been destroy ed by this animal Within the last three weeks. His attacks are always made in the night : he seizes his victim by the throat, mangles it terribly in that part, and sucks the blood ; it dues not ap pear that he eats any part of the flesh. The farmers and labourers in the neighbourhood are indefatigable in their endeavours to find out the haunt of thc ferocious beast, but their efforts have hitheao provcd unsuccessful. SHIP NEWS.. FALMOUTH, MARCH 23.—Arrived the Dnnira, HAMILTON, 110111 London .to China, last horn Plymouth ; and at 11 P. M. arrived the Princes. . Charlotte packet with mails from• s ale Leeward Islands, in 23 days. HARWICH, MARCH 25.—Sailed the Lord Nelson' packet with a mail and passengers for MILFORD HAVEN, MARCH 24.—Arrived this . morning the Auckland packet, Capt. RICHARDS, • with two mails and passengers from Waterford. The Leicester has sailed this morning with itte last mail for Waterford. Sailed also the Acastiis HAMMOND, for Liverpool. The different vessels • which suffered damage in the late gales having got repaired, are now ready to put to sea ova the first fair wind. Just arrived the Leander, from _Liverpool, bound to the iNiediterranean. — • Remain the Britomart sloop of war, with the out ward-bound as per my last. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 24.—Arrived the True Briton,• HEAD, and Princess Charlotte, from Cal.' cutta ; Ann Maria, WAITE, from • New sailed the 25th February ; also the Alexander Buchanan, CLEMENTS, from ditto—sailed the' same clay. The Sarah, ADAMS, from this port for Corunna, cut from both cables during the plc of the 22d, and went on shore in Beaumaris liaYt but has since been got off, with two feet water in her hold. WHITBY, MARCH following Green' land ships have sailed for the Fishery, viz. Valiant, AGAR; Mars, JOHNSON; PheaniX, DAW' SON ; Esk, DUNBAR ; Volunteer, CRAIG ; elta Resolution, KERSLEY. COWES, MARCH s.—Arrived the Lady Banks° WALKUR, from London for Madras and Bengs f ' with her rudder broken. CORK, 111Aacir 20.—The Jane, 111wGnsr, ° f and from Calcutta to Greenock, with c otton. saltpetre, and indigo, was towed in here this dal almost a complete wreck, having on the 1-4th O t i between the Western Islands and the Banks ° Newfoundland, experienced a most violent e l f ' of wind, in which all her masts, &c. were voil e "' away.. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. The sailing of the Expedition for discovering the. North Pole, and the Northein Passage betweits. the Atlantic.and Pacific Oceans, has been deferred for some days longer. Lord MELVILLE visited the shipsyesterday at Deptford, for the purpose cfr f inspecting . their condition, and the e fECi en ey of the'" , preparations. His Lordship was to lie eiftertaiu" ed by witnessing the activity_ and courage of th 6 Esquimaux, who goes out with the expedition a.O an interpreter, in case of any cottltllllnieatioll WW I the coast of Davis' Strait. This Indian has his canoe on board, with his fishing apparatus. ll' is not tall, but his form, though clumsy, denote! great strength. His face is clear and fair , anci being dressed like an English sailor, and working with the other men, he might, at first viev v °, iii • mistaken for a native of these Islands ; but of features are large, and the breadth and flatness his countenance betray his origin.—The mee t's of the expedition seem quite confident tha t t of Dorothea and the Trent, under the command of Captain BUCHAN, !destined for the Discove r Y, the North Pole, will attain their object ; bu t 1 , ‘ ,; are by no means equally sanguine of the s uc ` h l s l of the Isabella a nd 0)45 Alexander, .under C u l', - ,f Ross, who is instructed to attempt the pas s3 g e t he Davis' Str a it. A s the 'ultimate success 64 i b c Expedition must- necessarily depend 0 1'", e irs subordinati on an d di sc i p li ne o f t h e men , the c: i,nt of the vessels are placed under martial lay'' ided as the men !are all volunteers, and are pr ° 'i mi s with every advantage which the utmost an i t - r i solicitude for their comfort and saf e ty call we trust that no occasion will arise for enfor c - the strictness of its provisions. Ma. INcLgooN.---Letters were-. yt sterdtli rgo ceived in town, which remove the anxious fe l ' entertained by the f r iends o f this e debrat e t i , Singer, 'who was reported to have died at 1'1,1„-: York from rupturing a blood vessel. It is (1 , 7 0 , cult to account for the motives which could 0 0 4. induced any one to invent such a cruel Let, it suffice, however, to know that lig 11 . n ti• enjoyed b etter h ea l t h, an d that his success 407 nued to a degree duprecededied. re ef,. Yesterday as Captain :TONES, of Yorlvs t ,' (i 1. 1, ' MIS driving a one-horse chai se a l ong 01 0°. ,. street, the animal took fright, arid ran with e ° 4 siderable fury towards Cavendish-square and , Mortimer-street, where he became quite nageable. On turning ro u nd on e o f the corn‘ ;:s the vehicle came in contact with a coach, and ` - lf, upset. Mr. JONES was much i n jured by the rilie and was carried home in a hackney . chariot. chaise was much damaged. On Thursday evening, Captain Wilcocks received information that Finnegan, the noted r fo y her, under sentence of death from the Assizes, and known by the name of Capt.Finneg: . ' was seen at his old walk near Two-mile-br i t recently before, sent his Chief Constable , I' 5 Keilly (a man whose activity We bad varion occasions of recording), with a few otitis own 01 1, 1 in disguise, to the neighbourhood, and they 5%, seeded in the apprehension of Finnegan, in 3 s , lic- house, armed with a highly loaded blunderblr, which he had not time to use—as the parry stantly on Mr. Kelly's seizing him, closed "Pee. him, and effectually prevented any resist:l:oh The populace, from that place hitt) the is` exhibited a shocking instance of sympatil_ ! ° ors this villain—the crowd following h im of lamentations at his . caption.—(Cionme i He' raid) I